by Brian | Jun 3, 2020 | Cooperative Learning, High altitude ballooning, High Hopes Project, Messy Learning, NASA, STEAM, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology
Find out more about this project here. Our launch has been delayed until June 5th and maybe not until the following week because of weather conditions. When we launch, a communications payload keeps us in touch with the balloon’s progress. Besides 2...
by Brian | May 28, 2020 | Education, High altitude ballooning, High Hopes Project, Inclusion, Messy Learning, Project Based, STEAM, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, The High Hopes Project
From a past High Hopes mission over 90,000 feet above Nevada. That’s Lake Tahoe on the left. At this altitude the balloon is in “near space” above 98% of the Earth’s atmosphere. Note the thin blue line of the atmosphere and the dark of space...
by Brian | Dec 11, 2018 | Change, Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, High altitude ballooning, High Hopes Project, Making, Messy Learning, STEAM, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, The High Hopes Project, Uncategorized
I’m going to try and catch up on some long past due posts about the High Hopes Project. Last June we launched from Virginia City High School in Nevada. I posted about the preparation for the launch which will give you good background on the payloads students...
by Brian | May 21, 2018 | Change, Education, High altitude ballooning, High Hopes Project, Messy Learning, NASA, Project Based, STEAM, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, The High Hopes Project, Twitter
NOTE: If you’d like to be part of this project you and your students can send us their “High Hopes” for their school, community and the world and we will launch them up high to 100,000 feet where they will be released to slowly drift down to the...
by Brian | Dec 1, 2017 | Education, High altitude ballooning, High Hopes Project, Messy Learning, Project Based, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, The High Hopes Project
We finally managed to launch a balloon this fall. It’s been in the works for well over a month, maybe two. Weather and scheduling finally came together and we launched on Tuesday, November 28, 2017, from Virginia City High School’s football field (in...
by Brian | Sep 17, 2017 | Brian Crosby, Education, High altitude ballooning, Messy Learning, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access
A few weeks back I travelled with a NASA sponsored team to Idaho to launch high altitude balloons during the recent total eclipse. We sent up various cameras, data recorders and more (even an Idaho potato) to record data and media at high altitude during totality...
